The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

Yes, I know Congress just passed the Inflation Reduction Act, a big step forward in combating climate change that also has some important healthcare provisions (Medicare negotiating drug prices, anyone?), To be more accurate, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is actually buying hospitals, through two of its health subsidiaries.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 14, 2022

Characterized by rapid climate change, pollution, and landscape alteration, the Anthropocene is an unofficial unit of geological time and is defined as the most recent period in Earth’s history (from the 1950s to present) when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’s ecosystems and climate.

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Frontiers

APRIL 13, 2022

ka Smutná, Barbora Duží, Meike Janssen, and Jan Vávra write about how our food behaviors have changed during Covid-19, and how those behaviors depend on where we live and who we are. Food awareness, whether meals were missed and other aspects of food anxiety, diet and health were also covered.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture? “I

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

She is also a member of several international boards and commissions, including the United Nations High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs and the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All. I know that in your recent work, you’ve been talking about how inequality is a huge driver of the climate crisis.

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Washington University in St. Louis - Institute for

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Written by Ashley Bardon, Isheeta Gupta, Aryan Kumar, Danielle Serota, and Brenna Simmons Another successful annual Global Health Week culminated with a “Meet the Experts” Student Social. Through her own global health journey, Iwelunmor continues to remind herself of her ‘scars’ and her ‘why’.

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Gideon

APRIL 4, 2024

However, thanks to globalization and climate change, experts recommend that medical and public health professionals worldwide remain vigilant for signs of pinta. Read more on the GIDEON blog. Pinta is a rare infectious disease that causes skin infections and is primarily endemic to parts of Central and South America.

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Frontiers

JULY 28, 2021

Publishing their findings in Frontiers in Public Health , Dr Emmanuelle Logette and Prof Henry Markram, along with a group of Blue Brain Project researchers, developed machine learning models to mine 240,000 scientific articles openly accessible in the CORD-19 database. “Is Click on the infographic for a larger version. A vast database.

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UK Health Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Pinaceae (pine) pollen On the roof of a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) lab, at Chilton’s Harwell Science Campus in Oxfordshire, a new chapter in artificial intelligence (AI) and pollen monitoring is unfolding. Real-time data and pollen patterns The real-time capability is a game-changer.

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Gideon

OCTOBER 4, 2023

On October 2nd, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved R21, a vaccine that showed high efficacy in clinical trials. With climate change and globalization, mosq1uito-borne illnesses have been spreading to non-endemic regions as well. Read more on our blog: [link]. We have a new vaccine against malaria.

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Frontiers

JULY 18, 2023

The blog, Five traits to look for in a Systems Leader , explains more about what this concept is and represents. Participants, future systems leaders, explore intricate complex systems (ecological, economic, political, and social) while developing skills for driving systemic change.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Wetlands are environmental heavyweights What we do know is that wetlands are an underrated champion of the environment, the economy and climate mitigation, despite representing less than 6% of land in the contiguous United States. This post originally ran on The Union of Concerned Scientists blog and is republished here with permission.

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Public Healthy

AUGUST 21, 2020

I started thinking about this blog last year, when it was still basically socially acceptable to cough on strangers. It was to be about my worries that we were losing the battle for ‘hearts and minds’ on what public health is, and should be, and how we are occasionally our own worst enemies. Simpler times. Abolish PHE! Defund the WHO!

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Tulane Public Health Blog

APRIL 14, 2024

Quality health care should not have borders. While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity. The fields differ, however, in their area of focus.

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The Official PLOS Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As a non-profit organization, PLOS also works alongside researchers, librarians, and funders to redefine publishing norms and effect positive change. The post PLOS Price Transparency Update 2024 appeared first on The Official PLOS Blog. You can find our full report from the framework in this spreadsheet.

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UNC Epidemiology Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ania Wellere is transforming health care by utilizing lived experiences. What’s your role in public health? I also serve as a research assistant for Dr. Melissa Cox, which gives me the opportunity to work on an alcohol policy database that could potentially change the Alcohol Policy score for the state of North Carolina.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

Baby Boomers and our elders are focused on preserving their wealth (including Social Security, pensions, 401k/IRA) and health insurance (especially Medicare). But maybe we actually have such a narrative, only it’s organized around the life arc of the older baby boomers, and it just isn’t serving us well anymore.”.

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Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Does your economic story talks to big macro trends – demography, geopolitics, mobility, ecosystem, health, tech, governance shifts. Blogged on that extensively over the years. Blogged on that extensively over the years. See this blog [link]. This from Marmot team on the health of hidden workers is also good.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

students Meet Emily Goldmann, Director of SPH’s Online MPH Program Goldmann, also a clinical associate professor of epidemiology, discusses what led her to SPH and why the innovative format of the Online MPH is changing the virtual learning experience for the public health workforce.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

environmental safety Top Scientists Issue Urgent Warning on Fossil Fuels In a new review, Mary Willis, Jonathan Buonocore, and other environmental health experts present a bevy of evidence that details how fossil fuels are harmful to humans, wildlife, and the environment, and identifies ways to transition to clean, renewable energy.

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The Health Care Blog

APRIL 18, 2025

By JEFF GOLDSMITH Jeff wrote this article for Hospitals & Health Networks in the July 5, 1998 edition. What, if anything, has changed, and did anything get better?– In the space of a single generation, health services have evolved from a cottage industry into a substantial corporate enterprise.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 4, 2022

The results, published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change , illustrate that the program, one of the world’s largest, is likely not meeting its set requirements. Carbon offset programs have become popular action plans to combat the climate crisis. Wildfires and disease pose a threat. The future of forest offset programs.

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Sheffield DPH

AUGUST 22, 2024

Climate change is the most important public health crisis of the next 200 years. It is one of the priorities for Yorkshire and Humber Directors of public health. The actions that are good for the planet are good for health. Some time ago, YH DsPH and YH Climate commission ran an event. Enormously.

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The Health Care Blog

APRIL 21, 2025

Coal fueled the Industrial Revolutionbut it did so at a steep price: polluted air, poisoned water, caused respiratory illness, and climate instability. Hidden Costs and Broken Systems Coal seems cheapuntil you calculate the health consequences, environmental damage, and regulatory burden. The same is true for opioids.

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Sheffield DPH

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Its a deliberately provocative title…… the whole blog can be summed up in this sentence all that said – If you’re going to focus on micro anything focus on particulate matter in the air. Here is a long blog setting out my take. Ive been asked this question a bit of late. Keeping food fresher for longer for eg.

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 12, 2022

Even worse, our blithe resistance to following public health/medical advice, and our credulity for misinformation, aren’t unique to the pandemic but are endemic to our attitudes towards health generally. We’re not making wholesale changes to our healthcare systems or the way we live. The future sure looks dangerous.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Cohen told The Washington Post : “It’s a shock but not a change in direction.” . We have a climate change/global warming crisis that threatens to wreak havoc on human societies, we’re still in the middle of a global pandemic, and our political/cultural climate seems even more volatile than the actual climate.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Climate change not only leads to northward shifts, but expanded species diversity, accompanied by shorter migratory routes. Extreme climatic events, more common in an age of “global weirding” of weather, are also more common. Both spell greater mixing and exchange of viruses across avian species.

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Public Healthy

OCTOBER 29, 2019

My Dad often talks about how the culture of public service, respect and sense of worth changed for the worse when British Telecom became BT. There is lots of talk about ‘place-based’ approaches to health at the minute. A bit like Sir Alex Ferguson was for me growing up… In general, people don’t like too much change too quickly.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Scientists now fear that climate change will impact the upper atmosphere in ways that will cause space debris to burn up in it less often, making the problem worse. Health systems take their medical debt – caused by their excessive charges and our inadequate health insurance system(s) – and monetize it.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Our power plants and transmission lines are aging badly, we have a phobia of nuclear that is also starting to apply to coal as well, climate change is throwing more extreme weather at us, and many of the renewable options (solar, wind, geothermal) are not quite ready for prime time yet. So, get a generator. In fact, many people are.

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Sheffield DPH

JANUARY 14, 2023

Public Health” in almost all guises won’t deliver results fast enough on the right now issues. In the medium to long term pretty much everybody says “public health” is “the answer” In whole or in part. Some talk about “prevention” or “public health”. See my blog dog that doesn’t bark…. Not into health.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This is post 3 of 4 in this mini-series looking back at the public health communication around the COVID vaccines, why trust was lost, and where communication broke down. Guilt is helpful—it reveals when behaviors need to change. Catch up on the first two posts: misinformation versus miscommunication and expectation management.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).

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Monday Morning

AUGUST 30, 2022

The blog reflected issues of the day, sometimes related primarily to our school, but more often on topics with broader relevance and resonance. The blog will be available to read here , but this is my last post. The pandemic changed the importance and urgency of public health, resources for public health, and how we work.

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Gideon

MARCH 26, 2025

With climate change, dormant threats are awakening and tropical diseases are headed to the West, creating a perfect storm for a global health crisis. Learn more on the GIDEON infectious diseases blog. The post How climate change affects the spread of infectious diseases appeared first on GIDEON.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For more than a decade, researchers for Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO) at the School of Public Health have uncovered lifestyle, environmental, and medical factors that may affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes. Its goal: to identify modifiable changes that may increase one’s chances of conceiving and having a successful pregnancy. “We

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